Cotton-picking sack



Nov. 18, 1930. w. R. KEENE 1,782,354

COTTON PICKING- SACK Filed June 12, 1928 Patented Nov. 18, 1930 WILLIAMR. KEENE, 0F RULEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI COTTON PICKIN G SACK Applicationfiled June 12,

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in sacks and moreespecially sacks used in picking cotton.

The principal object of my invention is to 5 provide a constructionwhichvwill not only make the sack slide more easily along the ground,but will render the sack more durable and thereby greatly prolong thelife and usefulness thereof.

With the foregoing and other objects in View that will appear as thenature of my invention is better understood, the same consists in thenovel features of construction, combination and arrangement of partsillus- 5 trated in the accompanying drawings and more particularlypointed out in the appended claim. a

In the accompanying drawings, which are for illustrative purposes onlyand are there- 0 fore not drawn to scale:

Figure 1 is a side elevationvof a cotton picking sack, constructed inaccordance with my invention. I

Figure 2 is a similar'view,looking from 5 the opposite or bottom side.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse section, taken on line 3-3 of Figure2.

Referring to the drawings for a more par ticular description of myinvention and in 0 which drawings like parts are designated by likereference characters throughout the several views, A indicatesmyimproved cotton picking sack, which is preferably made about three feetin width and fromcfive to ten feet in length. The sack is end with ashoulder strap 1 and at one of its lower cornerswith a weighing ring 2,which is used to hang the sack in weighing the cotton. The sack isusually made entirely of canwas or similar-material, but in carrying outmy invention,'the lower end of the bottom 1 side3 of the sack is cutaway and with a corresponding strip 4 of rubb er, which marginal edge,as at 5, to the overlapping flap 6 of the bottom side 3 and stitched 'orother wise fastened at its marginal bottom and side edges 7 and 8 tothebottom and side edges9 and 10, respectively, of thefront sidereplaced is attached or otherwise secured at its upper 11 of the ablyextends about one-third of of the sack.

the sliding of picking cotton,

life of the Serial No. 284,828.

The rubber strip or bottom of the sack will also ton after protect thecotton from water'and mud and thereby enable the picking of cotheavyrains. It is often the case that a rainy season is experienced when thecotton is opening fast,

with more than one picking open in the field; open cotton always driesquicker than the ground, but to pick before the ground dries wouldresult in damaged picking is my lmpro I grades. However, such renderedpractical with the use of ved sack- From the foregoing description takenin connectlon with the .dlflWlDgS, it is thought that the constructionand advantages of my Will be'readily understood without inventionrequiring Having claim' as new and Patent, is. c

A cotton material whose lower end a more extended explanation.

described my nvention, what I picking sack of canvas or like and bottomside is desire to secure by Letters cut away and replaced with acorresponding strip of rubber which is stitched in place at its marginaledges.-

1n testii ture.

provided at its upper nony whereof he affixes his signa- WILLIAM R.KEENE.

